Essential Feature
News from your Local
Rotary Club
Your local Rotary Club has pleasure in
presenting :- THE BRAM TAYLOR BAND
IN CONCERT 27th March at CULCHETH
SPORTS CLUB
With an excellent stage presence and
his fine rich voice, Fellside recording
artist Bram Taylor, will be “in concert”
accompanied by Nick Peake and Dave
Howard, both solo entertainers in their
own right. Bram sings a cappella and to
guitar or duet concertina. All three sing
traditional and contemporary material
playing guitar and a variety of other
instruments.
This is a unique opportunity for music
lovers to hear artists with worldwide
reputations at Folk Clubs, Arts Centers
and Concert venues in the UK, USA,
Canada and Europe.
The Concert will be informal, with bar
available. Tickets at £8-50/head can be
obtained from behind the bar at the
Culcheth Sports Club or from Rotary
Club members (Contact Bob Connop
01925 765194 or bobconnop@talktalk.
net). All proceeds will go to charitable
causes. The photograph is of Bram with
fellow artists Nick and Dave.
In the last issue, we highlighted the
Pardada Pardadi girls school project
in India which Club members support
assisted by other volunteer organizations
who have contributed Music &Dance
training, Medical Care, Maths & English
teaching, Health & Hygiene training,
Teacher training, Call Center Etiquette,
Goods Distribution and many other skills.
The 1300 young women attending this
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school
now receive a broad education which
enables them to progress to further
education and even to working abroad.
There is a waiting list in excess of
4000, such is the demand for women’s
education. The school is now recognised
as a senior secondary school by the Uttar
Pradesh Board, enabling it to include
sciences in it’s curriculum. Businesses
employing 125 people, have been set
up to help finance the school; these
include textiles, leading to embroidery
and manufacture of men’s suit bags, the
recycling of textile materials into sanitary
ware and the formation of a Call Center.
The USA have provided medical care. This
education has enabled over 1500 local
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